Door Left Open Alert

[kamran]

1) Give a description of the problem
If a door has been left open for 10 minutes -> Receive a push notification that “$door has been left open for 10 minutes” & receive a reminder every 30 minutes (for each door respectively).

Have trouble figuring out what my next step would be.

Thanks

[jkp]

Check out the following example piston…

Door Left Open Reminder - Configurable by Individual Contact

This piston, which is in two parts, provides an alert (and subsequent reminders) if doors, gates, or even windows have been left open beyond a defined amount of time. It is configurable by individual contact, meaning that both the amount of time each contact can remain open before a notification is sent, as well as how often a reminder is sent after the first notification, can be different for each contact. This is useful if, for example, you want to monitor the front door very closely, but don’…

[kamran]

So I installed the piston and modified it accordingly…but I don’t receive any notifications. What did I do wrong?

[DomSim]

Here’s how I did a progressive notification

[kamran]

I basically want this but functional for all of my doors. Use one piston to monitor 15 doors instead of having one piston per door.

[Brasso]

Hi Kamran,
Were you able to get the piston to work?

[WCmore]

Piston “5gy5q” above has no triggers, so it will never run on it’s own.

(the trigger has to come from somewhere else)